| Regimental number | 2627 |
| Place of birth | Ryde, New South Wales |
| Religion | Wesleyan |
| Occupation | Railway Officer |
| Marital status | Married |
| Height | 5' 7.5" |
| Weight | 160 lbs |
| Next of kin | Wife, Annie Janet Bowes, Kathleen Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia |
| Previous military service | Served for 12 months in A Company, Western Australian Infantry Regiment. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 48th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT Port Melbourne on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 48th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 29 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 145 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Joseph and Ellen BOWES; Wife: Mrs A.J. BOWES, 115 Percival Road, Stanmore, New South Wales. Native of Ryde, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Fremantle, 30 October 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 28 December 1916. Marched into 12th Training Bn, Codford, 28 December 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 10 April 1917; taken on strength, 48th Bn, 15 April 1917. Appointed Lance Corporal, 28 May 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 12 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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